[plug] booting from a usb cdrom drive without bios support

[Caleb Duggan]

I dont really know how to do any of those. But The second one sounds good.

Don't suppose gentoo has a boot floppy like some of the other distros?  
does anyone know? a quick google search didnt find much other than smart  
boot manager(which didnt work)

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:33:59 +0800, W.Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Would a floppy (toms perhaps) or USB key boot get you far enough to load
> the drivers and transfer control?  Use loadlin on the local disk (or
> floppy) if windows as per the ancient redhat installs?
>
> Another method that I use is to create a local chroot copy and build
> gentoo within the local operating system and just boot from it when
> complete (the local OS needs to be a linux though).
>
> If windows, will the windows console (F5 or maybe F8 during boot) allow
> you to transfer control to the CD and continue booting (have not tried
> this so I dont know if it will work)
>
> BillK
>
> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 16:17 +0800, Caleb Duggan wrote:
>> Nope. It looks like Smart Boot manager won't detect the drive.
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:33:46 +0800, W.Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Anything here help?
>> >
>> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml
>> >
>> > BillK
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 20:27 +0800, Arie Hol wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 27 Apr 2006 at 18:45, Caleb Duggan wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > How do i do that? do i need to add some lines into the grub  
>> menu.lst
>> >> file?
>> >> >
>> >> > its a gentoo cd(2006.0 minimal boot) im trying to boot from but i  
>> dont
>> >> > know where to point initrd, kernel and root to
>> >> >
>> >> >
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